February i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



ATLANTIC RUBBER SHOE CO. 



THE directors chosen at the recent annual meeting of 

 the Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co. held a meeting at the 

 offices of the company, No. 52 William street, New 

 York, on the afternoon of January 10, and elected 

 officers for the ensuing year. The list of officers and directors 

 follows : 



Prtsidint — John H. Flac.ler. 

 Vice PrtsiJenl — G. Trowbridge Hoi. lister. 

 Secretary ami Treasurer— C. E. hi'ENcKR. 



Directors — John K. Hegeman, Latham A. Fish, O. Trowbridge Hol- 

 lister. Thomas B. Hidden, Edward H. Litchfield, John IL Klagler, 

 Frank N. White, Joseph O. Stokeb, William A. Read. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.~DIVIDEND. 

 The board of directors at a meeting on January 5 declared a 

 dividend of i^ pc cent, on the preferred stock of the compa- 

 ny, from the net earnings for the fiscal year beginning April i 

 last, to stockholders of record on February 28, payable March 

 15. This is the third dividend of i}^ per cent, for the fiscal 

 year, the previous disbursements having been made on June 15 

 and December 15, respectively, and the fourth declared since 

 the resumption of dividends. The forthcoming dividend will 

 require $352,882.50. A statement has emanated from the offi- 

 ces of the company that the net earnings for the first three- 

 quarters of the fiscal year (December partially estimated) leave 

 a surplus, after paying the three dividends, of $2,079,580. 



EUREKA FIRE HOSE CO. IN THE NORTHWEST. 



Mr. Maurice E. Baird will represent the Eureka Fire 

 Hose Co. (New York) exclusively in the sale of their standard 

 brands of fire hose to fire departments in Iowa, northern Wis- 

 consin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Mon- 

 tana. Mr. Baird has been connected with the Eureka company 

 for some years, representing them at Chicago together with his 

 brother, Mr. Clay Baird. His new headquarters will be at Min- 

 neapolis. Minnesota, where it is expected that he will achieve 

 the same success in the larger territory now in his charge that 

 marked his work in the Chicago headquarters. 



A CHARTER SURRENDERED. 

 At a meeting of shareholders of The India Rubber Co. (an 

 Ohio corporation) at Akron, on December 28, a resolution was 

 adopted to surrender the charter. The company was organ- 

 ized in 1895. with $100,000 capital, and established a factory at 

 Akron, which was devoted mainly to making vehicle tires. In 

 1899 control was acquired by the Rubber Goods Manufacturing 

 Co., formed in that year, and after the destruction of the fac- 

 tory by fire, in March, 1903, the business was transferred to New 

 Brunswick, New Jersey, where the Rubber Goods company 

 owned a factory not then in use. A new corporation by the 

 name of The India Rubber Co., with §500,000 capital, was 

 formed under the New Jersey law July i, 1903. 



BISHOP GUTTA-PERCHA CO. (NEW YORK). 

 At the annual meeting of the shareholders of this company, 

 held on January 11 the following were elected directors for 

 the ensuing year : Amos A. Browning, Norwich, Conn.; Ellen 

 I. Anderson, Rochester, N. Y. ; Henry A. Reed, Newark, N. J. ; 

 Harry D. Reed, New York city ; and W. Boardman Reed, 

 Mount Vernon, N. Y. The usual semi-annual dividend of 5 

 per cent, on the capital stock was declared. The directors 

 elected for president and treasurer, Mr. Henry A. Reed; for 



vice president, Mr. W. Boardman Reed ; and for secretary, Mr- 

 Louis F. Reed. There had been a vacancy in the board since 

 the death of the president. H. E. Blitz, in October last. This 

 was filled by the election of Harry D. Reed, the works superin- 

 tendent; the other members of the board were reelected. Mr. 

 Henry A. Reed, who becomes president, had been for a num- 

 ber of years secretary and treasurer. Within the last 15 

 months the Bishop Gutta Percha Co. have built in connection 

 with their factory a new four story building, 25 X 40 feet, for 

 storage purposes, in order to be able to devote the whole of the 

 factory building to manufacturing. They are just now com- 

 pleting a fourth story, 75 X 9° feet, to the old three story fac- 

 tory. This addition is to be used entirely for manufacturing 

 Gutta-percha and Balata tissue, much of which is of high grade 

 used lor surgical purposes and for dress shields. The company 

 state that it is not many years since nearly all of the Gutta- 

 percha tissue used in the United States except the very highest 

 grade was imported, while at present nearly all is domestic 

 manufacture. 



THE OHIO RUBBER CO. 

 The Cincinnati store of the Ohio Rubber Co. (Nos. 612 614 

 Race street) has been in existence for 12 years, under the man- 

 agement of Mr. H. B. Hallock. Each year has seen an enlarge- 

 ment of the business and of the premises, until now a seven 

 story building is occupied. The first floor is devoted to a stock 

 of retail goods for household use — including druggists' sundries 

 —and the second floor to waterproof clothing. The other five 

 floors and the basementare used for stocks of mechanical goods. 

 Until two years ago the house catered to the jobbing and whole- 

 sale trades exclusively, but now a first class retail department is 

 included. 



FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE STREAT CLAIMS. 

 What is understood to be a final settlement of the claims of 

 George Streat, for alleged infringement of his waterproof fab- 

 ric patent (No. 260,063— June -7- 18S2), was made in the latter 

 part of December. The claims of the Streat patent were as 

 follows : 



1. As a new article of manufacture, a waterproof material composed 

 of two cloths, united by waterproof cement filling [the depressions or. 

 hollows between them, and having the projecting portions of their con- 

 tiguous faces in contact, whereby the compound material is rendered 

 waterproof without essentially increasing the thickness, substantially as 

 described. 



2. As a new article of manufacture, a sewed garment composed of 

 waterproof material formed of two cloths having the projected parts of 

 their contiguous faces substantially in contact and the depressions filled 

 with waterproof cement, substantially as described. 



In a statement made in the offices of The India Rurber 

 World in September, 1899, Mr. Streat claimed that the manu- 

 facture of mackintoshes in America dated from the licensing of 

 a certain rubber firm to work under his patents. Other firms 

 adopted his ideas without the formality of a license, until the 

 practice introduced by him had become universal. He there- 

 fore brought suits against the various mackintosh manufactur- 

 ers to secure an accounting. His patent expired on June 27, 

 1899, but that did not estop him from prosecuting his cases to 

 a final trial. The matter appears, however, to have ended 

 in a compromise. The association of mackintosh manufactur- 

 ers formed in May, 1899, though not active for some time 



